Dog Behavior Explained 
There’s a particular kind of pride a dog radiates when he finds the biggest stick on the trail. Not a twig, not a reasonable branch, but the biggest one he can physically haul without tripping over it.…
A rope toy lands on the kitchen floor and the whole mood in the house changes. A dog grabs one end, plants its front paws, and leans back with its whole body weight, a low grunt escaping with each pull, tail whipping, eyes locked on.…
The kids race from the bedroom to the kitchen to the backyard, slamming three doors in under a minute. There, weaving between ankles and skidding around the same corners, is the family dog.…
Picture two moments.
In the first, a dog is mid-wrestle with another dog in the yard. For a second or two, he plants himself squarely across his playmate’s shoulders.…
Two dogs stand at the same window and bark the exact same three sharp notes at a stranger walking up the driveway.
One dog’s tail is a stiff flag, hackles raised, weight leaning back toward the door like it’s already planning a retreat.…
You’re barely awake. The room is still gray with early light.
Somewhere in the last twenty minutes, forty pounds of dog has relocated from the foot of the bed to directly on top of your ribcage.…
A dog can trot through fifty greetings at the park, tail loose and easy. Then it plants its feet in front of one particular dog and refuses to go a step closer.…
Dogs turn out to be surprisingly easy to study when it comes to sleep because their brains cycle through sleep much like ours do.
That overlap is why a twitching, paddling, softly whimpering dog on the couch isn’t a mystery to researchers.…
You glance over at your dog mid-nap and freeze. Their eyes are open, glassy, staring at nothing.
Your first thought is probably that something is wrong. Maybe even that you should wake them up.…
It’s one of the first things people say when they see a dog thread himself between someone’s ankles: he’s scared.
A car backfires, a stranger gets too close, the vacuum cleaner switches on, or a sidewalk suddenly fills with strangers and other dogs.…